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Karataş-Semayük
Early Bronze Age I–II (c.3000–2300 BCE) · Early Bronze Lycian (Elmalı-Karataş) → Southwest Anatolian
Lycia's largest EB village with 180 pithos jar cemetery (3000 BCE) at Elmalı.
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Karkamış (Carchemish)
Early Bronze Age through Iron Age II (c.3000–717 BCE); Neolithic substratum · EBA–MBA Euphrates town → Hittite viceroyalty → Neo-Hittite Luwian-Aramaean
80 ha Euphrates tell — Hittite viceregal capital and Neo-Hittite sculpture city on Turkish-Syrian border (c.3000–717 BCE).
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Kinet Höyük (Issos)
Early Bronze III through Medieval (EBA, MBA, LBA Izziya, Iron Age, Classical, Byzantine) · Cilician coastal / Hittite (Izziya) → Syro-Cilician → Classical Greek/Roman
Coastal tell (Bronze Age Izziya, Classical Issos) — 5 kyr harbour sequence from EB III to Medieval, Alexander battlefield anchor.
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Kinet Höyük North Harbour
MBA to Hellenistic (2000 BCE–100 BCE) · MBA Levantine → Hittite → Neo-Assyrian → Hellenistic Issos
Kinet Höyük North Harbour is the 15-ha northern basin of Kinet Höyük — identified with Issos, where Alexander beat Darius III (333 BCE).
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Korucutepe Keban East Mound
Late Chalcolithic to Mitanni (4000 BCE–1350 BCE) · Late Chalcolithic → EBA → MBA → Hittite → Mittani
Korucutepe Keban East Mound is the eastern salvage mound 300 m east of Korucutepe main on the Altınova plain (860 m) — twin mound testing the Keban Altınova Hittite–Mittani frontier.
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Kumtepe
EBA (c.3000-2000 BCE) · Western Anatolian EBA (Troy I-II, Yortan sphere)
Kumtepe — buried eba tell/village at Çanakkale Province.
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Kurban Höyük
Late Chalcolithic (Uruk) through Middle Bronze Age; EBA I–III urban · Uruk → EBA Euphrates urban → MBA Syro-Anatolian
Euphrates bend urban tell (c.3500–1600 BCE) with EBA II–III walled lower town — Chicago Atatürk Dam salvage type-site.
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Kurban Höyük Dam Salvage Zone
Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze (3800–2300 BCE) · Uruk → Jemdet Nasr → Ninevite V → Early Dynastic
Kurban Höyük Dam Salvage Zone is the 6-ha lower terrace on the Euphrates left bank, salvaged before Atatürk Dam raised the lake 15 m over the valley.
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Kuruçay Höyük
Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic to Early Bronze · Hacilar-Kuruçay-Beycesultan sequence
Neolithic to Early Bronze lakeside tell with 13 levels (c.6200–3800 BCE, + EBA), bridging Hacilar (Level 6 early pottery) to Chalcolithic fortified town.
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Köşk Höyük
Neolithic–Late Chalcolithic (6000–3200 BCE) · Central Anatolian (Cappadocian) Neolithic–Chalcolithic
Bor Plateau Neolithic village with painted floors, earliest copper and plastered skulls.
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Köşk Höyük — Bor South Skull-Cult Annex
Late Neolithic to Early Chalcolithic (6000–5000 BCE; Levels I–III) · Cappadocian Neolithic–Chalcolithic with Halaf links
Neolithic skull-cult village 6000 BCE — plastered skulls and relief houses.
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Küllüoba Höyük
Early Bronze Age I–III (c.3500–2000 BCE) with Late Chalcolithic base · Western Anatolian EBA (Eskişehir phase, Troy I–II contemporary)
EBA II–III walled plateau town (c.3500–2000 BCE) with monumental compound and planned lower town — Eskişehir plain urbanism type-site.
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Küllüoba Höyük South Extension
Early Bronze Age (3200–1950 BCE) · West Anatolian Early Bronze → Hittite scatter
Küllüoba Höyük South Extension exposes the EBA II–III domestic quarter 80 m south of the central burnt compound (Level II).
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Lidar Höyük
Neolithic → EBA → MBA Karum → LBA → Iron → Medieval (6000 BCE–1500 CE) · Halaf → Euphrates EBA → Assyrian Karum → Mitanni/Hittite
Euphrates peninsula tell (Neolithic–Medieval) — 12 m double mound with Karum tablets, Hauptmann salvage.
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Maydos Kilisetepe
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Maydos Kilisetepe — buried prehistoric tell/village at Çanakkale Province.
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Nevali Çori North Bank — Cult Building Ridge
PPNA to early PPNB (8600–7900 BCE) · PPNB Nemrik-Pre-Pottery Euphrates
PPNB T-pillar cult ridge — 8400 BCE terrazzo temple north bank (Hauptmann).
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Nevalı Çori
Early PPNB · Upper Euphrates PPNB
PPNB ritual settlement (c.8400–8100 BCE) on the middle Euphrates, sister-site to Göbekli Tepe with limestone T-pillars, terrazzo floors, and anthropogenic limestone sculptures of humans and birds…
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Norsuntepe
Chalcolithic–Iron Age (c.4000–800 BCE) · Ubaid → Early Transcaucasian → Hurrian → Hittite → Urartian hinterland
Keban rescue tell (Ubaid–Iron Age, 35 m high, EBA palace) now submerged under Lake Keban.
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Norşuntepe Village Extension — Keban Plain
Halaf to Urartian (5000 BCE–600 BCE) · Halaf → EBA Trans-Caucasian/Karaz → Urartian
EBA Keban village 2800 BCE — Karaz painted & copper crucible hamlet (Hauptmann).
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Oylum Höyük
Late Chalcolithic through Medieval; EBA III, MBA II, Hittite, Neo-Hittite, Assyrian · Syro-Anatolian; EBA Islahiye cluster → Hittite sphere → Neo-Hittite/Assyrian
37-m high Kilis plain tell (460×370 m) with EBA–Hittite–Neo-Hittite town and 30 ha buried lower town — frontier type-site.
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Patara
Bronze Age to Byzantine (peak Lycian League 168 BCE–43 CE and Hadrianic) · Lycian → Hellenistic → Roman → Byzantine
Lycian federal port with 1st-century parliament hall, buried Nero lighthouse and harbour silted 1 km inland.
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Pessinus (Ballıhisar)
Chalcolithic to Byzantine; Phrygian-Roman sanctuary peak · Phrygian → Galatian Tolistobogii → Roman Galatia
Mother-goddess sanctuary-city of Cybele — Phrygian terraces, Hellenistic temple and Roman acropolis buried under Ballıhisar mound on Sangarios.
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Porsuk Höyük (Zeyve Höyük)
Middle Bronze to Hellenistic (Karum → Neo-Hittite/Tabal, Iron Age, Hellenistic) · Hittite/Luwian → Tabal → Neo-Hittite (Luwian-Phrygian contact)
Neo-Hittite/Iron Age tell (ancient Tynna) on Cilician Gates — Hittite citadel, Luwian inscriptions and Tabal fortifications.
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Pulur Höyük (Erzincan)
Chalcolithic-EBA (c.5000-2500 BCE) · Kura-Araxes / Early Transcaucasian (Karaz-Pulur)
Pulur Höyük (Erzincan) — buried chalcolithic-eba tell/village at Erzincan Province.